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1. Voo de Mar says:

   December 19, 2025 at 7:49 pm

   Points won by each set: | 27-14, 17-25, 32-20, 35-32 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   27 % Moya – 28 of 103
   12 % Rios – 12 of 99

   Roland Garros ’98 – the only Slam when Rios [3] was the main favorite to the title. A few factors made an impact: the arguably best clay-court players of the 90s like Muster, Bruguera, Courier & Medvedev were declining; Agassi, who would win in 1999, was still recovering from an abysmal ’97 season; finally Korda, who had won the Aussie Open ’98, was out of form that year on clay… Nonetheless in the quarterfinal Rios [3] faced someone who was not only similarly agile and creative, Moya [12] also possessed a better serve, and he emphatically confirmed it in that meeting. The serve helped him as he trailed *0:1 (0/40) in the pivotal 3rd set, in the 4th set Rios improved from 1:3 to 4:3* (40/30) – then Moya played a perfect FH stop-volley. As Moya was serving for the match, they both were intertwining errors with great display, ultimately Moya prevailed after four deuces (one BP saved) playing his lone serve-and-volley action that day in the last point.

   Serve & volley: Moya 1/1, Rios 3/4

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